'It’s been an incredible journey since the introduction of Hawken on Steam, back in 2014. The game’s success has been largely due to your continuous support. The Hawken community has been the cornerstone of this ever-evolving franchise,' the Hawken team at Reloaded Games explain in a Facebook post announcing an end-of-life plan for the game. 'After 3 great years, we are shutting down the PC Steam servers to refocus our development efforts. The PC game will officially be removed on January 2, 2018, and all DLC and purchasable content will also be unavailable starting today.

'It’s been an incredibly rewarding experience working alongside such a dedicated PC player base. Your feedback and support has been invaluable to us, and the team looks forward to creating more great games based on what we’ve learned from you.'

From today, then, the base game will remain listed on Steam, but any chargeable in-game content has already been removed - meaning nobody will be wasting any additional money on a game which is going away. The company has not indicated whether it has any plans to shut down the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports of the game in the immediate future.